Democrat Party of Turkey

The Democrat Party (DYP) is a conservative political party in Turkey that was founded on 23 June 1983 by Suleyman Demirel. The party was formed by former Justice Party of Turkey politicians, and the party supported conservative-Kemalist views. The DYP had a similar structure to that of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), and it was the dominant conservative party in Turkey during the 1990s, ruling from 1991 to 1997. In 2017, the party held no seats in the Parliament and only a small handful of local government offices, with the AKP becoming the largest conservative party in the country.